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Republican senator for Maine
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Collins votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Collins’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
| Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
|---|---|---|
| Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Collins votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Collins’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+9.1% | 67.2% | -22.1 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Collins vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 22, 2022 | Providing appropriations for various federal departments and agencies for fiscal year 2023; updating the process of appointing and tallying presidential electors; providing money for humanitarian, security and economic assistance to Ukraine (68-29) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 88.6% | +11.4 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 85.3% | +14.7 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 82.6% | -82.6 |
| Nov. 29, 2022 | Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed out-of-state; includes an amendment allowing religious organizations to deny services or accomodations for same-sex weddings (61-36) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.6% | +9.4 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 61.2% | +38.8 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.1% | +4.9 |
| Aug. 7, 2022 | Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; extending Affordable Care Act subsidies; expanding tax credits for renewable and clean energy efforts; establishing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax; and other measures (50-50) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 85.1% | -85.1 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 92.9% | +7.1 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.7% | +12.3 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.8% | +6.2 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 89.2% | +10.8 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 87.3% | +12.7 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.3% | +11.7 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.9% | +13.1 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 74.7% | +25.3 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.7% | +10.3 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.4% | +10.6 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.6% | +8.4 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 85.3% | +14.7 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 82.8% | +17.2 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 91.9% | -91.9 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 91.3% | +8.7 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 73.1% | +26.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 85.1% | -85.1 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 96.0% | +4.0 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Susan Collins's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 58.4% | -58.4 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.2% | +6.8 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 85.9% | -85.9 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.5% | +9.5 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 85.1% | -85.1 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.0% | +10.0 |
| July 29, 2021 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (98-0) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 22, 2021 | Expanding voting rights and strengthening campaign finance regulations and ethics rules (50-50) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 85.1% | -85.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 85.0% | -85.0 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.3% | +13.7 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.8% | +9.2 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 86.0% | -86.0 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.8% | +15.2 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.4% | +9.6 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.1% | +6.9 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.0% | +12.0 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 16, 2021 | Nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be administrator of the Small Business Administration (81-17) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.7% | +5.3 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.6% | +8.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.4% | +6.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.0% | +7.0 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.8% | +11.2 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 85.3% | -85.3 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.9% | +3.1 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.2% | +5.8 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.6% | +11.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.4% | +7.6 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.3% | +6.7 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.5% | +11.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.9% | +5.1 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Susan Collins's Vote: No | support | No | | 70.5% | -70.5 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Susan Collins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.2% | +3.8 |
| Average | 67.2% | 89.3% | -22.1 | |||
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